china hopes its trillion dollar project will unite the country and usher in a golden age of trade. hello. president trump has defended his eldest son, who has released e mails suggesting he was ready to accept an apparent offer from the russian government to help his father get elected. last october, donald trumer was promised official documents that would damage hillary clinton. it led to a meeting, which he says he didn t tell his father about, with a russian lawyer and two key trump advisers. opponents say he should have gone instead straight to the fbi. this from the bbc‘s gavin hewitt. for nearly six months, there has been a shadow over the trump administration, with the allegation that the trump campaign last year in some way colluded with the russians. but today, a series of highly damaging e mails were published, suggesting that russian officials were actively trying to help the trump campaign. congratulations, dad. we love you! donald trumer was at the heart of his
tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr. and ken vogel political reporter for the new york times. thank you all for being with us especially as part of our leadoff panel tonight. ken, i ll lead off with you. what do you make of this bank subpoena, if true, is it a big deal? what else does it speak of? absolutely. we always kind of knew that this was a possibility that mueller would start looking into donald trump s finances and this subpoena, again, if it is accurate that deutsche bank has been subpoenaed, would indicate that he is fully going down that route. deutsche bank is significant because donald trump it has at least $130 million worth of donald trump s debt and it sold some of that debt or could have sold some of that debt to russian banks. that could potentially give these russian banks some leverage over donald trump. and so you have the combination here potentially of donald trump s finances as well as his
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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
according to phone records obtained by the senate judiciary committee, while he was communicating with emin, trump jr. also had a phone call with a blocked number. we know that donald trump uses a blocked number, so the big question is, did he speak to his father. all we know is what the records show. don jr. connected with agalarov, and in between those calls, he spoke to a blocked number. after that, the meeting was set. june 9. trump tower. goldstone would bring the russian lawyer. trump jr. said he would bring the candidate s son-in-law, jared kushner and campaign chair, paul manafort. before joining the trump campaign, manafort worked as a political consultant for oligarchs and pro-russia clients. first it was of interest to me, frankly is mr. manafort. he has been in russia. he has been in ukraine. if donald trump jr., and jared kushner, took this meeting innocently, and ignorantly, and sort of stepped into it, you know, it is possible, but mr. manafort, we have clearly
Said, they wouldn t send the a-team if they were testing, because they don t know whether the trump team will call the fbi and everyone is going to be arrested. it is possible the russian lawyer may not have known the real reason she was in the meeting. if this worked, an intelligence operation, you might pick someone just like this russian attorney. her inability to make people happy at the meeting might actually be consistent with her being kind of an unwitting dupe. the untrained eye could see the trump tower meeting and see a bunch of amateurs trying to get their own business done, but the counter-intelligence lens tells us this is exactly how putin would do it today. what s more, the goldstone says the trump tower meeting wasn t the end of it and asked to arrange meetings again after the election and around the inauguration. so after this, as you painted, really kind of a disastrous meeting, you get two more calls? two more e-mail, yes. asking to set up more